Downsides of selling to a housing association?

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As getting a valuation will cost you money, then I would have thought you could bypass that by doing your own in-depth study of equivalent places. I would imagine your flat is pretty bog-standard - so I would say it's possible.

My last house was pretty bog-standard - an average condition terrace house in average area and there were loads of similar ones around. Knowing the area extremely well - then I knew what houses like that were worth and it was just a case of adding or subtracting enough to cater for what level of area it was in in the city and I'd got the exact price to charge worked out to the £. I told the EA what price it would go on the market at. If anyone had queried the price I had set - then I could produce a lot of evidence of what similar houses cost to prove that was the accurate price.

In your place - it sounds as if you can do the same. It's the more unusual places that it is more difficult to fix a price for. I'd struggle a bit more with my current house for instance because of particular factors applying to it and there are many fewer places on the market (because it's a much smaller place).